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Zusatztext Radio actor Iron Rinn (born Ira Ringold) is a big Newark roughneck blightedby a brutal personal secret from which he is perpetually in flight. Anidealistic Communist! and uneducated ditchdigger turned popular performer!a six-foot! six-inch Abe Lincoln look-alike! he emerges from serving inWorld War II passionately committed to making the world a better placeand winds up instead blacklisted and unemployable! his life in ruins. Setin the heart of the McCarthy era! the story of Iron Rinn's denunciationand disgrace is narrated years later by his brother! Murray Ringold! whoseformer student! the adolescent Nathan Zuckerman! was the radio actor'sadoring prot'g' in the late forties. It is a story of cruelty! humiliation!betrayal and revenge! spilling over into the public arena from their originsin Ira's turbulent personal life. Informationen zum Autor Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English Literature. In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus – a collection of stories, and a novella – for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of America’s finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Roth’s lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively. Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previously. Klappentext In his heyday as a star - and as a zealous, bullying supporter of 'progressive' political causes - Ira marries Hollywood's beloved leading lady, Eve Frame. This book charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as a ditchdigger in 1930s New Jersey, becoming a big-time radio hotshot in the 1940s. Zusammenfassung In his heyday as a star - and as a zealous, bullying supporter of 'progressive' political causes - Ira marries Hollywood's beloved leading lady, Eve Frame. This book charts the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, an American roughneck who begins life as a ditchdigger in 1930s New Jersey, becoming a big-time radio hotshot in the 1940s....
